Existing and emerging zoonotic risks of dog & cat parasites

Graduated at the Faculty of Veterinary medicine of the University of Milan, obtained 2 years later the Board in Small Animal Practice in the same Faculty and attended the Course of Cardiology in dogs and cats at the University of Turin.
He was as Visiting Professor for six months at Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Georgia (Athens USA) and visited further several Veterinary Teaching Hospital abroad (Davis CA, Ft Collins CO, Philadelphia PA, Gifu Japan). He presented more than 100 topics in Italy, U.S.A., U.K., Spain, Slovenia, Greek, Poland, Croatia, Japan, Cuba, Czech republic, Bulgaria, Serbia, Russia about Parasitology and Cardiology and is author and co-author of more than 30 papers on “Internationally peer reviewed journals”, two books about Heartworm disease, three books about Small animal Parasitology and one about Cardiology of dogs, cat and horses. He works in cooperation in research projects with the Faculties of Veterinary Medicine of Milan, Parma, Zagreb and the Faculty of Biology of Salamanca.
He is member of the American Heartworm Society, Feline Heartworm International Council, SOIPA, ESSCAP and WAAP, and is vice President of the European Society of Dirofilariosis and Angiostrongylosis
Since 2006 he is a Diplomate of the EVPC (European Veterinary Parasitology College).
He works in the fields of Cardiology (both medicine and surgery) and Clinical Parasitology.